NIEMBridging Information Systems 
Case Studies Needed! 
NatioNal iNformatioN ExchaNgE modEl (NIEM) 
NIEM Case Study 
Ideas Needed! 
The IJIS Institute is working on an ongoing project to compile 
and edit NIEM Adoption and Use Case Studies. These case 
studies are a great vehicle to help others understand and 
use NIEM. It is important, as we advocate the use of NIEM for 
information sharing, that we also share how NIEM is being 
used and highlight NIEM success stories. The IJIS Institute 
needs your help in collecting and developing these case 
studies for a variety of uses and among various levels of 
government and private industry. 
NIEM Adoption and Use Case Studies are published in the 
electronic newsletter NIEM News. The newsletter is posted 
to the www.niem.gov site and is sent via e-mail to a targeted 
mailing list of interested parties. Case studies may also be 
used to highlight successful NIEM adoption and use in flyers or 
other promotional materials to help those interested. 
Do you have any real-world examples of your work 
highlighting NIEM in action that might work as case studies? 
If so, we would like to hear from you! Case studies are simple 
write-ups that focus on the challenge, the solution, and the 
results. An organization can simply provide the IJIS Institute 
with some bullets or background material that we can turn 
into narrative form, or you can write the narrative yourself 
using a simple template we can provide. 
Please contact Andrea Walter at the IJIS Institute, 
andrea.walter@ijis.org, with your case study ideas. We 
appreciate any help that you can provide us in crafting 
useable case studies to get the word out about NIEM 
success stories! 
NIEMBridging Information Systems 
Case Study 
Pennsylvania s Justice Network (JNET) 
NATIONAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE MODEL (NIEM) 
Synopsis 
The purpose of this case study is to highlight the successful 
development of a NIEM 2.0-conformant Information Exchange 
Package Document (IEPD) for Pennsylvania’s Court Case Event 
Messages through Pennsylvania’s Justice Network (JNET ) 
and to draw attention to resulting documentation—NIEM 
Adoption Whitepaper, Performance Measurement Plan, 
and Lessons-Learned Report—that can guide future NIEM 
implementation eorts. 
PENNSYLVANIA’S COURT CASE EVENT GJXDM TO NIEM (G2N) PILOT PROJECT 
Executive Summary 
Challenge 
Recently, JNET merged its existing message managemen 
approval document with its previous GJXDM dev t 
methodology to create a single compr 
development process. The Administra 
Courts (AOPC), Court Case Event M 
data exchange currently available in JNET 
components. The CCE is currently GJXDM-c t 
JNET selected the CCE transactions t -
conformant message using the JNE . 
Solution 
The funds appropriated to JNET throu v 
Association (NGA) and the Bureau of Justic e 
used to create a pilot conversion of the A v t 
Message (CCE) from GJXDM to NIEM 2.0 using the newly dr t 
JNET NIEM message development pr . 
NIEM IEPD development process w 
the eort required to convert GJXDM messages t 
practices for converting existing GJXDM messages t 
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Agency Overview 
The Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET ) is the 
Commonwealth’s primary public safety and criminal justice 
information broker. JNET’s secured justice site provides users 
with a common online environment for users to access public 
safety and criminal justice information. This critical information 
comes from various contributing municipal, county, state, 
and federal agencies. JNET’s secure site provides access 
to more than 33,000 practitioners located throughout the 
Commonwealth’s 67 counties, as well as federal and state 
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NIEMBridging Information Systems 
Case Study 
Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center 
NATIONAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE MODEL (NIEM) 
Synopsis 
The purpose of this case study is to highlight the successful 
development of two NIEM 2.0-conformant Information 
Exchange Package Documents (IEPDs) and electronic data 
transmission involving the N-DEx subset of Uniform Crime 
Report (UCR) incident/oense and arrest data and Suspicious 
Activity Report (SAR) data, through the Alabama Criminal 
Justice Information Center (ACJIC). 
APPLYING NIEM TO FACILITATE SHARING OF ALABAMA UNIFORM CRIME 
AND SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTS 
Executive Summary 
Challenge 
The ACJIC intrastate UCR Local Template for Reporting and 
Analysis (ULTRA) was developed prior to the establishmen 
NIEM 2.0 as the national standard. Additionally, ACJIC’ t 
Secure Homeland Access and Reporting Environment (SHARE) 
must be complemented by the amount of SAR informa t 
it collects and has been limited by the amount of infor 
that gets entered by law enforcement and private sect y 
personnel. 
Solution 
The funds appropriated to ACJIC through the National G 
Association (NGA) and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) 
were used to ultimately develop two NIEM 2.0-conformant 
Information Exchange Package Documents (IEPDs) and tr 
data for sharing Alabama’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) da 
with other states through N-DEx and Suspicious Activit t 
(SAR) data generated by Alabama law enforcement agencies and 
private security personnel with fusion centers located in other 
states. 
Results 
Results include the ultimate creation of two NIEM 2.0-
conformant IEPDs. 
Agency Overview 
The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC) is 
a state agency that serves citizens by providing local, state, 
and federal criminal justice agencies with critical information. 
ACJIC is the central point of integration for the National Crime 
Information Center (NCIC) and International Justice and Public 
Safety Network (Nlets) within Alabama. It is a resource for 
law enforcement agencies throughout the state for sharing 
both information and technology resources. Its responsibility 
extends to data collection and processing of incident, arrest, 
and other criminal justice information. ACJIC’s information 
sharing systems are designed to help law enforcement 
agencies make good decisions that result in the safety and 
security of citizens of Alabama. ACJIC also serves as the 
information technology and information sharing arm of the 
Alabama Department of Homeland Security and the Alabama 
Fusion Center. 
The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC) has 
been highly successful in developing a new Uniform Crime 
Report (UCR) processing system, the UCR Local Template for 
Reporting and Analysis (ULTRA). ULTRA will provide ocers 
with the exibility of entering and updating their UCR reports 
either on laptops within their patrol cars or on desktop 
computers within their oce environments. Pushing the 
data entry out to the ocer in the eld ensures that the data 
is complete, internally consistent, timely, and immediately 
available for information sharing and analysis. In addition, the 
data is more accurate since it is being provided by the people 
who know most about the incident—the investigating ocers 
themselves. 
Alabama also recently received a major grant from the 
U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Information 
Technology Evaluation Program (ITEP) to develop an 
environment for a virtual fusion center. As a result, an 
environment was developed specically for the fusion 
center known as the Secure Homeland Access and Reporting 
Environment (SHARE). SHARE has a large number of data 
access and information sharing features. It is unique, however, 
in having a terrorist incident case management system that 
is able to receive reports directly from eld ocers (including 
both law enforcement and private sector security personnel). 
While these individuals do not have “read access” to SHARE, 
any Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) that they submit 
NIEMBridging Information Systems 
Case Study 
California-Nevada Pilot Project 
NATIONAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE MODEL (NIEM) 
Synopsis 
Prescription monitoring programs (PMPs) are state-sponsored 
initiatives aimed at addressing the diversion and abuse of 
prescription drugs. One of the rst programs was established 
in California more than 60 years ago, but the entire initiative 
received a boost when, in 2002, Congress appropriated 
funds to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to support 
development of a national PMP capability. The purpose of 
this case study is to highlight the success of the pilot design of 
an interstate prescription monitoring information exchange 
(PMIX) program between California and Nevada. 
CALIFORNIA–NEVADA PILOT PROJECT PRESCRIPTION MONITORING 
INFORMATION EXCHANGE (PMIX) 
Executive Summary 
Challenge 
Pharmaceutical drug abuse is crossing state lines as oenders 
begin to realize the gap in interstate reporting. 
Solution 
The establishment of a prescription monitoring information 
exchange that would allow for the transfer of timely reports. 
Results 
The successful completion of a design test phase that produces 
a baseline standard for prescription monitoring information 
exchange, lessons learned, and several “rsts.” 
Agency Overview 
California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement—The California 
Triplicate Prescription Program (TPP) was created in 1940, 
becoming the rst prescription monitoring program in the 
nation. The main function of the program was to monitor the 
dispensing of Schedule II drugs, and it did so by employing 
state-issued, triplicate prescription forms marked with 
serial numbers. It was not until 1998 that TPP transferred its 
operation to an electronic monitoring system. Following a 
restructuring of the entire program in 2003, the program 
changed its name to CURES and, a year later, ended its use of 
triplicate forms, switching to a more secure form. The program 
has since expanded to monitor Schedule II through IV drugs. 
CURES currently has more than 86 million records covering 
approximately 6,000 pharmacies and 150,000 practitioners 
and prescribers. 
Nevada Board of Pharmacy—The Nevada prescription 
monitoring program began in 1997, using a fax-based system 
to provide patient utilization reports. When the requests for 
these reports increased by more than 13,500 in just six years, 
the state of Nevada realized that the system could not handle 
the volume manually and moved to a Web-based program. 
The program has long been viewed as one of the best in the 
country and in 2004 was cited in President Bush’s National 
Drug Control Strategy document as an example of an eective 
statewide pharmaceutical drug monitoring program. 
Challenge 
As of December 2007, 35 states had enacted legislation that 
required the establishment of PMPs. Of those states, 26 are 
currently operating a PMP, and 9 are in the start-up phase. 
Additionally, 14 states are in the process of recommending, 
setting up, or taking into consideration a PMP. Many states 
still have not endorsed any sort of legislation to build a PMP, 
and some existing PMPs are still not technically advanced 
enough to capture the necessary information and provide 
it to the doctors who need it. The challenges are many, 
but for the purposes of this case study, the focus will be on 
sharing information across state lines. Oenders are now 
gradually realizing that while each state that runs a PMP may 
have information on activity within its own jurisdictions, 
this information is not being shared with other states. 
Consequently, the diversion and abuse of prescription drugs 
has now increased in scope as oenders seek alternative 
avenues within the limits of neighboring states. 
Issued 11/08 This project was supported by Grant No. 2007-NC-BX-K001 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, in collaboration 
with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a 
component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, 
the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime. Points of view or opinions in this 
document are those of the author and do not represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. www.NiEm.gov 
NIEMBridging Information Systems 
Case Studies Needed! 
NatioNal iNformatioN ExchaNgE modEl (NIEM) 
NIEM Case Study 
Ideas Needed! 
The IJIS Institute is working on an ongoing project to compile 
and edit NIEM Adoption and Use Case Studies. These case 
studies are a great vehicle to help others understand and 
use NIEM. It is important, as we advocate the use of NIEM for 
information sharing, that we also share how NIEM is being 
used and highlight NIEM success stories. The IJIS Institute 
needs your help in collecting and developing these case 
studies for a variety of uses and among various levels of 
government and private industry. 
NIEM Adoption and Use Case Studies are published in the 
electronic newsletter NIEM News. The newsletter is posted 
to the www.niem.gov site and is sent via e-mail to a targeted 
mailing list of interested parties. Case studies may also be 
used to highlight successful NIEM adoption and use in flyers or 
other promotional materials to help those interested. 
Do you have any real-world examples of your work 
highlighting NIEM in action that might work as case studies? 
If so, we would like to hear from you! Case studies are simple 
write-ups that focus on the challenge, the solution, and the 
results. An organization can simply provide the IJIS Institute 
with some bullets or background material that we can turn 
into narrative form, or you can write the narrative yourself 
using a simple template we can provide. 
Please contact Andrea Walter at the IJIS Institute, 
andrea.walter@ijis.org, with your case study ideas. We 
appreciate any help that you can provide us in crafting 
useable case studies to get the word out about NIEM 
success stories! 
NIEMBridging Information Systems 
Case Study 
Pennsylvania s Justice Network (JNET) 
NATIONAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE MODEL (NIEM) 
Synopsis 
The purpose of this case study is to highlight the successful 
development of a NIEM 2.0-conformant Information Exchange 
Package Document (IEPD) for Pennsylvania’s Court Case Event 
Messages through Pennsylvania’s Justice Network (JNET ) 
and to draw attention to resulting documentation—NIEM 
Adoption Whitepaper, Performance Measurement Plan, 
and Lessons-Learned Report—that can guide future NIEM 
implementation eorts. 
PENNSYLVANIA’S COURT CASE EVENT GJXDM TO NIEM (G2N) PILOT PROJECT 
Executive Summary 
Challenge 
Recently, JNET merged its existing message managemen 
approval document with its previous GJXDM dev t 
methodology to create a single compr 
development process. The Administra 
Courts (AOPC), Court Case Event M 
data exchange currently available in JNET 
components. The CCE is currently GJXDM-c t 
JNET selected the CCE transactions t -
conformant message using the JNE . 
Solution 
The funds appropriated to JNET throu v 
Association (NGA) and the Bureau of Justic e 
used to create a pilot conversion of the A v t 
Message (CCE) from GJXDM to NIEM 2.0 using the newly dr t 
JNET NIEM message development pr . 
NIEM IEPD development process w 
the eort required to convert GJXDM messages t 
practices for converting existing GJXDM messages t 
the advantages of NIEM over GJXDM. 
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t 
f f 
v x 
L r 
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Agency Overview 
The Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET ) is the 
Commonwealth’s primary public safety and criminal justice 
information broker. JNET’s secured justice site provides users 
with a common online environment for users to access public 
safety and criminal justice information. This critical information 
comes from various contributing municipal, county, state, 
and federal agencies. JNET’s secure site provides access 
to more than 33,000 practitioners located throughout the 
Commonwealth’s 67 counties, as well as federal and state 
agencies. JNET provides these practitioners with the ability to 
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NIEMBridging Information Systems 
Case Study 
Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center 
NATIONAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE MODEL (NIEM) 
Synopsis 
The purpose of this case study is to highlight the successful 
development of two NIEM 2.0-conformant Information 
Exchange Package Documents (IEPDs) and electronic data 
transmission involving the N-DEx subset of Uniform Crime 
Report (UCR) incident/oense and arrest data and Suspicious 
Activity Report (SAR) data, through the Alabama Criminal 
Justice Information Center (ACJIC). 
APPLYING NIEM TO FACILITATE SHARING OF ALABAMA UNIFORM CRIME 
AND SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTS 
Executive Summary 
Challenge 
The ACJIC intrastate UCR Local Template for Reporting and 
Analysis (ULTRA) was developed prior to the establishmen 
NIEM 2.0 as the national standard. Additionally, ACJIC’ t 
Secure Homeland Access and Reporting Environment (SHARE) 
must be complemented by the amount of SAR informa t 
it collects and has been limited by the amount of infor 
that gets entered by law enforcement and private sect y 
personnel. 
Solution 
The funds appropriated to ACJIC through the National G 
Association (NGA) and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) 
were used to ultimately develop two NIEM 2.0-conformant 
Information Exchange Package Documents (IEPDs) and tr 
data for sharing Alabama’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) da 
with other states through N-DEx and Suspicious Activit t 
(SAR) data generated by Alabama law enforcement agencies and 
private security personnel with fusion centers located in other 
states. 
Results 
Results include the ultimate creation of two NIEM 2.0-
conformant IEPDs. 
Agency Overview 
The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC) is 
a state agency that serves citizens by providing local, state, 
and federal criminal justice agencies with critical information. 
ACJIC is the central point of integration for the National Crime 
Information Center (NCIC) and International Justice and Public 
Safety Network (Nlets) within Alabama. It is a resource for 
law enforcement agencies throughout the state for sharing 
both information and technology resources. Its responsibility 
extends to data collection and processing of incident, arrest, 
and other criminal justice information. ACJIC’s information 
sharing systems are designed to help law enforcement 
agencies make good decisions that result in the safety and 
security of citizens of Alabama. ACJIC also serves as the 
information technology and information sharing arm of the 
Alabama Department of Homeland Security and the Alabama 
Fusion Center. 
The Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC) has 
been highly successful in developing a new Uniform Crime 
Report (UCR) processing system, the UCR Local Template for 
Reporting and Analysis (ULTRA). ULTRA will provide ocers 
with the exibility of entering and updating their UCR reports 
either on laptops within their patrol cars or on desktop 
computers within their oce environments. Pushing the 
data entry out to the ocer in the eld ensures that the data 
is complete, internally consistent, timely, and immediately 
available for information sharing and analysis. In addition, the 
data is more accurate since it is being provided by the people 
who know most about the incident—the investigating ocers 
themselves. 
Alabama also recently received a major grant from the 
U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Information 
Technology Evaluation Program (ITEP) to develop an 
environment for a virtual fusion center. As a result, an 
environment was developed specically for the fusion 
center known as the Secure Homeland Access and Reporting 
Environment (SHARE). SHARE has a large number of data 
access and information sharing features. It is unique, however, 
in having a terrorist incident case management system that 
is able to receive reports directly from eld ocers (including 
both law enforcement and private sector security personnel). 
While these individuals do not have “read access” to SHARE, 
any Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) that they submit 
NIEMBridging Information Systems 
Case Study 
California-Nevada Pilot Project 
NATIONAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE MODEL (NIEM) 
Synopsis 
Prescription monitoring programs (PMPs) are state-sponsored 
initiatives aimed at addressing the diversion and abuse of 
prescription drugs. One of the rst programs was established 
in California more than 60 years ago, but the entire initiative 
received a boost when, in 2002, Congress appropriated 
funds to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to support 
development of a national PMP capability. The purpose of 
this case study is to highlight the success of the pilot design of 
an interstate prescription monitoring information exchange 
(PMIX) program between California and Nevada. 
CALIFORNIA–NEVADA PILOT PROJECT PRESCRIPTION MONITORING 
INFORMATION EXCHANGE (PMIX) 
Executive Summary 
Challenge 
Pharmaceutical drug abuse is crossing state lines as oenders 
begin to realize the gap in interstate reporting. 
Solution 
The establishment of a prescription monitoring information 
exchange that would allow for the transfer of timely reports. 
Results 
The successful completion of a design test phase that produces 
a baseline standard for prescription monitoring information 
exchange, lessons learned, and several “rsts.” 
Agency Overview 
California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement—The California 
Triplicate Prescription Program (TPP) was created in 1940, 
becoming the rst prescription monitoring program in the 
nation. The main function of the program was to monitor the 
dispensing of Schedule II drugs, and it did so by employing 
state-issued, triplicate prescription forms marked with 
serial numbers. It was not until 1998 that TPP transferred its 
operation to an electronic monitoring system. Following a 
restructuring of the entire program in 2003, the program 
changed its name to CURES and, a year later, ended its use of 
triplicate forms, switching to a more secure form. The program 
has since expanded to monitor Schedule II through IV drugs. 
CURES currently has more than 86 million records covering 
approximately 6,000 pharmacies and 150,000 practitioners 
and prescribers. 
Nevada Board of Pharmacy—The Nevada prescription 
monitoring program began in 1997, using a fax-based system 
to provide patient utilization reports. When the requests for 
these reports increased by more than 13,500 in just six years, 
the state of Nevada realized that the system could not handle 
the volume manually and moved to a Web-based program. 
The program has long been viewed as one of the best in the 
country and in 2004 was cited in President Bush’s National 
Drug Control Strategy document as an example of an eective 
statewide pharmaceutical drug monitoring program. 
Challenge 
As of December 2007, 35 states had enacted legislation that 
required the establishment of PMPs. Of those states, 26 are 
currently operating a PMP, and 9 are in the start-up phase. 
Additionally, 14 states are in the process of recommending, 
setting up, or taking into consideration a PMP. Many states 
still have not endorsed any sort of legislation to build a PMP, 
and some existing PMPs are still not technically advanced 
enough to capture the necessary information and provide 
it to the doctors who need it. The challenges are many, 
but for the purposes of this case study, the focus will be on 
sharing information across state lines. Oenders are now 
gradually realizing that while each state that runs a PMP may 
have information on activity within its own jurisdictions, 
this information is not being shared with other states. 
Consequently, the diversion and abuse of prescription drugs 
has now increased in scope as oenders seek alternative 
avenues within the limits of neighboring states. 
Issued 11/08 This project was supported by Grant No. 2007-NC-BX-K001 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, in collaboration 
with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a 
component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, 
the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime. Points of view or opinions in this 
document are those of the author and do not represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. www.NiEm.gov